Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

November 9 by Colleen Hoover

23 reviews

cole_anthony's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Suicide, Cursing, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Sexual content, and Dysphoria

ashleysager's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

Really not that great but also was really enticing. I wanted to know how things turned out, but the plot twist was really upsetting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual content, Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, Ableism, Mental illness, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gun violence, and Alcohol

gmbooks11_'s review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

There’s a plot twist. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Death, Body horror, Abandonment, Medical trauma, Suicide, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, and Death of parent

olivemason's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Fire/Fire injury

jengua1's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Mental illness, Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

worldofv33's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Cancer, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Death of parent

Moderate: Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Cursing

skyegbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

Interesting concept.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Death of parent

Minor: Mental illness and Violence

this_is_lee's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

This was just such a fun book. I really enjoy reading Colleen Hoover books. While yes of course the writing is overall a little on the childish side, I think she is a good storyteller that makes books full of depth easy reads. 
I loved this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Cursing, Suicide, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Mental illness, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, and Death

thatswhatshanread's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Ah CoHo, I hate to do this and give an unpopular opinion… But unfortunately I was not a fan of this one.

If you’re into Instalove—two characters falling in love at first sight, all consuming love straight out of the gate—then you’ll be immediately pulled in. I guess I found out with November 9 that I don’t really care for that genre of romance. Ben and Fallon’s instant attraction didn’t seem believable to me.

The main thing that pulled my rating down was not something that went away throughout the story as it was literally the character of Ben, the MMC. From the beginning he gave me the ick by the way he talked and interacted with Fallon, without even knowing her. He was too confident and domineering and controlling for my taste, disguised as the “nice guy” who saw past Fallon’s imperfections. DUDE YOU’VE SPENT ONLY A FEW HOURS WITH HER. Idk, the simp behavior jumped out.

The plot had potential and I liked the sections being split up by the same date each year. However, that further drove the nail in the coffin that was my effort to give Ben and Fallon time to grow on me. Instead, with each year passing, I found their “connection” more and more forced and weirdly obsessive. 

Hoover’s writing wasn’t bad, she always has great pacing in her novels, in fact. For me, the main relationship in this book just really put me off and the rest of the elements that I liked didn’t make up for it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Grief, Infidelity, Sexual content, Body shaming, Medical content, Terminal illness, Abandonment, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Bullying, Suicide, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Violence, Cancer, Alcohol, Car accident, Mental illness, and Pregnancy

Minor: Stalking and Panic attacks/disorders

hollysutto's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Car accident, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, Suicide, Violence, Pregnancy, and Death of parent